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| Chap. 496 | Wapato Indian irrigation project, Wash. Appropriation for additional water authorized. |
| Chap. 496 | 38 Stat. 582, 604. |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $800,000, and credited to the reclamation fund, to defray the actual cost of furnishing an additional quantity of water annually of one hundred thousand acre-feet which is needed to provide adequate irrigation for forty acres each of the
Indian allotments of the Yakima Reservation as contemplated by the Act of August 1, 1914, and as set out in the terms of the agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Office of Indian Affairs, approved by the Secretary of the Interior September 3, 1936, the same to be made available in amounts not to exceed $20,000 annually for forty years.
Approved, July 1, 1940.
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